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Early medieval settlement and ironworking in Dornoch, Sutherland excavations at The Meadows Business Park
Coleman, Russel and Effie Photos-Jones
with contributions by Simon Chenery, Adrian Cox, Derek Hall, Mhairi Hastie and Catherine Smith
Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 28 (2009)
0903903974
Abstract: Monitoring and excavation during the development of a new business park in Dornoch in 1997 revealed numerous features including a building, ditched enclosures and several hearths, all sealed beneath an artefact-rich cultivation soil. Radiocarbon dates obtained place the main period of activity here in the late 1st millennium ad. The evidence recovered also suggests a tradition of ironworking here from the early medieval period continuing through into the medieval period. A small assemblage of finds was recovered from the excavation, including quantities of iron slag, bog iron ore, fragments from a clay-lined furnace, whale bone, a bone counter and a bone pin beater. This paper reports on the results of the work and includes an extended section on the analysis of the iron making and working evidence.
The post-excavation analysis and reporting of the results was funded by Historic Scotland.
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